overcomeverb/ˌəʊ.vəˈkʌm/

• 1

  To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.

  • But sith this wretched woman ouercome / Of anguish, rather then of crime hath beene,
  • By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls.
• 2

  To prevail.

  • Hee that ouercommeth, the same shalbe clothed in white raiment, and I will not blot out his name out of the booke of life, but I will confesse his name before my Father, and before his Angels.
  • We shall overcome because Carlyle is right; "no lie can live forever".
• 3

  To recover from (a difficulty), to get over.

• 4

  To win against or prevail over in some sort of battle, contest, etc.

  • to overcome enemies in battle
  • Ther with all cam kyng Arthur but with a fewe peple and slewe on the lyfte hand and on the ryght hand that wel nyhe ther escaped no man / but alle were slayne to the nombre of xxx M / And whan the bataille was all ended the kynge kneled doune and thanked god mekely / and thenne he sente for the quene and soone she was come / and she maade grete Ioye of the ouercomynge of that bataille
• 5

  To come or pass over; to spread over.

  • I was overcome with anger.
  • And overcome us like a summer's cloud.
• 6

  obsoleteTo overflow; to surcharge.

  • A Crop so plenteous, as the Land to load, O'ercome the crowded Barns
  • Th' unfallow'd Glebe Yearly o'ercomes the Granaries with Store Of Golden Wheat.

overcomenoun/ˌəʊ.vəˈkʌm/

• 1

  The burden or recurring theme in a song.

• 2

  A surplus.

overcomeadj/ˌəʊ.vəˈkʌm/

• 1

  That has been overcome, prevailed over.